Armed Groups: The Twenty-First-Century Threat

Armed Groups is a comprehensive text that categorizes and analyzes key actors that pose a threat to security, including terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations. It provides tools for examining these actors and highlights the impact of globalization, privatization of force, and great power competition on the security landscape. The second edition includes new material on private military companies, sub-Saharan Africa, great power politics, social media, and advanced technology.

Format: Hardback
Length: 292 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Armed Groups is a comprehensive text that categorizes and analyzes key actors that pose a threat to today's security arena, including terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations. It draws on case studies, histories, and theoretical literature to provide students with the tools to examine these often overlooked drivers of violence in the international system. Globalization, the privatization of force, and the return of great power competition have altered the security landscape and enhanced armed group threats, leading to an increasing overlap between conflict and crime and a growth in the state use of armed group proxies. Coming to terms with armed groups is critical for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers to understand the changing nature of war. This second edition includes new material on the importance of private military companies, the shift to sub-Saharan Africa as an important center of conflict, the return of great power politics, the increased use of social media and advanced technology, and the increasingly criminalized nature of armed groups.

Weight: 582g
Dimension: 158 x 235 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538168639
Edition number: Second Edition